SERMON OUTLINE

9-3-11

“SATAN’S TRICKS, PART 2”

  1. REVIEW OF LAST WEEK’S SERMON:

PURPOSE OF SATAN’S TRICKS,

DECPTION:

  1. REVIEW OF SOME TYPES OF DECEPTION BY SATAN:
  2. HUMAN OPINION OVER EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS.
  3. TRADITIONS OVER GOD’S INSTRUCTION.
  4. EMPHASIZING SECONDARY RESEARCH (OPINION) OVER PRIMARY RESEARCH ( THE BIBLE ITSELF.)
  5. OVERPROMISES. PROMISES HAPPINESS BUT DELIVERS MISERY AND, ULTIMATELY, ETERNAL DEATH.
  6. MAKES SIN LOOK RESPECTABLE: “EVERYONE IS DOING IT!”
  7. LESSENING NATURE OF AND RESULTS OF SIN. (“THE SOUL THAT SINS SHALL DIE.” EZE. 18:20.)
  1. CHRIST: CENTER OF HISTORY AND OF BIBLE.
  2. PARTIARCHS LOOKED FORWARD TO CHRIST FOR SALVATION; WE LOOK BACK TO HIM FOR OUR SALVATION.
  3. CHRIST’S SALVATION- THE ONEUNIFYING THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGHOUT OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
  4. BIBLE TRANSLATORS AND COMMENTATORS, ATTEMPTING TO TAKE CHRIST OUT OF ANY PART OF THE BIBLE, MAKE THAT TRANSLATION AND/OR COMMENTARY MISLEADING AND DISTORTED. THESE ERRORS, THEREFORE, RENDER THEIROPINIONSHOLLOW, LIFELESS, UNPERSUASIVE, AND POWERLESS.
  5. EXAMPLES OF ERRORENEOUS, HOLLOW TRANSLATIONS & COMMENTARY BY NON-BELIEVERS IN CHRIST: (INCLUDING JEWISH TRANSLATIORS/COMMENTATORS)
  6. GEN. 3:15- THIS VERSE “DESCRIBES THE GENERAL NOTION THT PEOPLE WILL HAVE A DISLIKE FOR SNAKES AND HIT THEM IN THE HEAD, WHILE SNAKES WILL BITE PEOPLE IN THEIR FEET.” RABBI M. SHULMAN.
  1. THE RABBI TRIES TO SQUEEZE CHRIST OUT OF THIS MESSIANIC PASSAGE.
  2. THE PLAUSABLE, PERSUASIVE INTERPRETATION IS THAT THE SEED (CHRIST) OF THE WOMAN, MARY, WILL BE INJURED BY SATAN, BUT THAT EVENTUALLY CHRIST. THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, WILL DESTROY SATAN AND SIN.)
  3. MICAH 5:2- CHRIST TO BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM.
  4. COMMENTARY BY RABBI Y. DVIDIY: THE MESSIAH BEING REFERRED TO, IS JOSIAH.
  5. HE GIVES NO EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT JOSIAH WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM. HE ALSO DOES NOT EXPLAIN HOW JOSIAH IS “EVERLASTING.”
  6. NOTE: CHRIST’S BIRTH IN BETHLEHEM TIES CHRIST DIRECTLY TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID, CONFIRMING CHRIST’S CLAIM TO THE EVERLASTING THRONE.
  1. IS. 7:14- A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BRING FORTH A SON WHOSE NAME SHALL BE CALLED EMMANUEL. (PARAPHRASE).
  2. ALTHOUGH BROWN, DRIVER, AND BRIGGS’ DICTIONARY OF HEBREW DEFINITIONS GIVES THE FIRST DEFINITION OF ALMAH AS, “VIRGIN,” FOLLOWED BY “YOUNG WOMAN,” JEWISH TRANSLATORS, CONSULTED BY THIS AUTHOR, CONSISTENTLY TRANSLATE THE WORD AS “MAIDEN” OR “YOUNG WOMAN,” COMPLETELY IGNORING THE “VIRGIN” DEFINITION.
  3. ONE CHRISTIAN COMMENTATOR STATES: “THERE IS NO INSTRANCE WHERE IT CAN BE PROVED THAT THE WORD “ALMAH” IS A YOUNG WOMAN WHO IS NOT A VIRGIN.”
  4. MATT. 1:23 AND LUKE 11:27, BOTH APOSTLES REFER TO THE MOTHER OF CHRIST AS A “VIRGIN.”
  5. I BELIEVE MATTHEW WAS INSPIRED.
  6. I BELIEVE LUKE WAS INSPIRED.
  7. THEREFORE, LOOKING AT THE ABOVE EVIDENCE, AN OBJECTIVE READER WILL CONCLUDE THAT THE EVIDENCE FOR THANSLATING THE HEBREW WORD “ALMAH” AS VIRGIN, RATHER THAN “YOUNG WOMAN,” HAS A SOUND BIBLICAL AND LEXICOGRAPHICAL BASIS.
  1. SATAN’S NEXT TRICK, ADJUSTINGCHRIST’S COMMANDS.
  2. SOME CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS COMPLETELY IGNORE THE ORDINANCE OF THE LAST SUPPER. 1 COR. 11:23-25.)
  3. MANY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IGNORE THE ORDINANCE OF HUMILITY, THE WASHING OF ANOTHER’S FEET.

(JOHN 13:14.)

  1. SOME CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IGNORE BAPTISM OR DO NOT PRACTICE BABTISM AS ORDAINED BY CHRIST, IMMERSION. (MATT. 28:19; MATT. 3:13.)
  1. ANOTHER OF SATAN’S TRICKS: GOD IS TOO MERCIFUL TO DESTROY ANYONE. THIS IS ERROR.
  2. WORLD WAS DESTROYED BY FLOOD.
  3. SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE DESTROYED BY FIRE.
  4. REBELLIOUS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT OF HEAVEN AND WILL BE BURNED UP ALONG WITH THE WICKED. REV. 20:9.
  5. WE ARE TO BE EXAMPLES BEFORE OTHERS, EVEN THOUGH SATAN TELLS US THAT OUR INFLUENCE MATTERS NOT.
  6. TITUS 2:7- BE AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD WORKS, HOLY AND SERIOUS IN BEHAVIOR. YES, WE SHALL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR INFLUENCE.
  7. ALSO, WE ARE TO KEEP GOOD COMPANY, FOR WEARE INFLUENCED BY OTHERS. PROV. 1:10.
  8. TENNYSON- WE ARE A PART OF ALL THAT WE HAVE MET.

VI. CONCLUSION: BE AWARE OF SATAN’S TRICKS AND ASK GOD TO BRING TO MIND THOSE BIBLICAL TEXTS THAT YOU CAN USE TO THWART THE TEMPTATIONS OF SATAN. ASK FOR THE FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, DAILY, HOURLY, AND MOMENTARILY. MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU! PASTOR FILLMER